Nailing in the bearers and then nailing them in again.

Today we started out continuing building our small house plan. We cut the rest of the bearers, including the two bearers that had to be joined with a vertical scarf joint over the top of a stump. We then set up the string line again so that we could push out the stumps to line up perfectly with the perimeter of the house. The bearers were secured to the stumps by hammering 75mm bullet head nails skewed in from either side.
After all the bearers were done and lined up correctly with the string line we then moved onto cutting and fixing some of our joists. The distance between the outside bearers on both sides, was shorter than the real measurement of 4.3m, so we had to let our joists hang over the edge of the bearers just a little bit.
We rushed ahead and nailed a few joists on to the bearers with one end flush with one bearer and overhanging on the other, but this turned out to be wrong, as both sides needed to overhang a small bit so it would fit the 4.3m dimension. So we had to remove the joists and then denail them, which set us back some time.
When starting again with the joists, we lined up the edge of the joist with the string line by using a spirit level vertically. When it was in the correct position we marked it with a pencil and then nailed them in. We nailed the must joists in at the two far ends of the house perfectly in line with the string lines. We then put in some 35mm packers between the load bearing joists, and nailed them all together.
Greg reynolds and Mike left after smoko because they were ill so we then moved onto our brown paper drawings of the layout of a subfloor, which included stumps, a bearer, joists, wall plates, sole plates, strip flooring and sheet flooring. It also had a brick wall stump. The diagram was done to AS1864 Australian building standards.
I enjoyed having the time to just relax, listen to the radio, talk to greg, paul and rhys, whilst completing our drawings. It was fun but also very productive and i've almost completed my drawing, all we need to do now is to draw in the metal stump that we have just searched up on the net.
How cool is AS1684, it rocks balls! AS1684, the building bible, but without Jesus.